Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness.
- adjective Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing.
- adjective Deplorable or inadequate; sorry.
- adjective Dark-hued; somber.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Strongly; stiffly.
- Soberly; prudently; discreetly.
- Closely; firmly: as, to lie sad.
- To make firm.
- To strengthen; establish; confirm.
- To sadden; make sorrowful; grieve.
- Full; having had one's fill; sated; surfeited; hence, satiated; wearied; tired; sick.
- Heavy; weighty; ponderous.
- Firm; solid; fixed.
- Close; compact; hard; stiff; not light or soft.
- Heavy; soggy; doughy; that has not risen well: as, sad bread.
- Weighty; important; momentous.
- Strong; stout: said of a person or an animal.
- Settled; fixed; resolute.
- Steadfast; constant; trusty; faithful.
- Sober; serious; grave; sedate; discreet; responsible; wise; sage.
- Sorrowful; melancholy; mournful; dejected.
- Expressing or marked by sorrow or melancholy.
- Having the external appearance of sorrow; gloomy; downcast: as, a sad countenance.
- Distressing; grievous; disastrous: as, a sad accident; a sad disappointment.
- Troublesome; trying; bad; wicked: sometimes used jocularly: as, a sad grumbler; a sad rogue.
- Dark; somber; sober; quiet: applied to color: as, a sad brown.
- = Syn. 11 and
- Depressed, cheerless, desponding, disconsolate.
- Dire, deplorable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To make sorrowful; to sadden.
- adjective obsolete Sated; satisfied; weary; tired.
- adjective Obs., except in a few phrases; as, sad bread. Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
- adjective Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors.
- adjective obsolete Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous.
- adjective Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.
- adjective Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow.
- adjective colloq. Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked.
- adjective [Scot. & Local, U.S.] heavy bread.
- noun Acron. Seasonal affective disorder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
Sated , having had one's fill;satisfied ,weary . - adjective obsolete
Steadfast ,valiant . - adjective obsolete
Dignified ,serious ,grave . - adjective Of colours:
dark ,deep ; later,sombre ,dull . - adjective Feeling
sorrow ;sorrowful ,mournful . - adjective Appearing
sorrowful . - adjective Causing
sorrow ;lamentable . - adjective
Poor in quality,bad ;shameful ,deplorable ; later,regrettable ,poor . - adjective slang
Unfashionable ; socially inadequate or undesirable. - adjective dialect
soggy (to refer to pastries).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bad; unfortunate
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My poor kitteh, known as William, Sir William of Lounge, Sir Lounge-a-lot, etc., has crwn too. *sad* *sad* He catches his booteefuls looooong tail in bafrum door and well, it not so loooooong now. *sad* *sad* We is sad kittehs tonite.
Aw, dude. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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We know the once sad spirit now, no longer _sad_, the _radiant_ Genius of Humanity.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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You will think this letter a very sad one, but _I feel sad_ ....
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860
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i not scare die (blah blah blah) i now very sad sad +sad me say sorry then she say
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i not scare die (blah blah blah) i now very sad sad +sad me say sorry then she say
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In fact, in my survey of parents, the word sad rarely appeared, although children were often described as “depressed.”
The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child Judith Lederman 2003
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In fact, in my survey of parents, the word sad rarely appeared, although children were often described as “depressed.”
The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child Judith Lederman 2003
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In fact, in my survey of parents, the word sad rarely appeared, although children were often described as “depressed.”
The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child Judith Lederman 2003
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In fact, in my survey of parents, the word sad rarely appeared, although children were often described as “depressed.”
The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child Judith Lederman 2003
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I was at the point of mental and physical fatigue when I cry so easily that all you have to do is say the word "sad" and my eyes start leaking.
Suzanne Morrison: For the Exhausted Author, Wellness Is on the T.V. Suzanne Morrison 2011
johnmperry commented on the word sad
Seasonal Affective Disorder. An acronym which started life as a joke but now is being taken seriously. Seriously that is only by pseudo-scientists, quacks and other charlatans.
July 19, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word sad
So hopelessly behind on comments that I will never, ever catch up and don't have time even to try. Missing my Wordnik buddies. :-(
May 10, 2011
reesetee commented on the word sad
I say we record all of our comments and send them to you in a file, so you can listen on your iPod whenever you want.
May 11, 2011